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2 Chronicles 29:34

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34However, since there were not enough priests, they weren’t able to skin all the burnt offerings, so their Levite brothers helped themc until the work was finished and until the priests consecrated themselves. For the Levites were more conscientiousd to consecrate themselves than the priests were.e

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Cross references

  1. c2Ch 35:11
  2. dPs 32:11; 64:10
  3. e2Ch 30:3

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

But the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so until other priests had consecrated themselves, their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was finished—for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in consecrating themselves.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The priests, however, were too few to skin all the burnt offerings; so their relatives the Levites helped them until the task was finished and until other priests had been consecrated, for the Levites had been more conscientious in consecrating themselves than the priests had been.

NLTNew Living Translation

But there were too few priests to prepare all the burnt offerings. So their relatives the Levites helped them until the work was finished and more priests had been purified, for the Levites had been more conscientious about purifying themselves than the priests had been.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But the priests were too few, and they were not able to offer all the burnt offerings, so their brothers, the Levites, strengthened them to finish the work, and until the rest of the priests consecrated themselves. (For the Levites were more conscientious to sanctify themselves than the priests.)

KJV 1900King James Version

But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.